Lesson · Grades 5–8 · Theater

Voice, Body, Story

Students will explore storytelling, voice, and embodied performance through the lens of the Harlem Renaissance oral tradition — the spoken word, the blues shout, the preacher’s cadence. They will develop and perform a short monologue, scene, or spoken word piece rooted in a Harlem Renaissance character or theme, and reflect on how performance creates empathy and historical understanding that written text alone cannot.